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A cultural history of medical vitalism in enlightenment Montpellier /
The Montpellier vitalists were convinced that there was an absolute distinction between dead matter and living beings. This was contradictory to Enlightenment thinking, a topic that the author expands upon and investigates in great depth.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge,
2016.
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| Colección: | History of medicine in context.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1.A Medical Town: Montpellier in the Eighteenth Century
- 2.A University in the Enlightenment: The University of Medicine of Montpellier
- 3. Boissier de Sauvages and the Emergence of Vitalism in Montpellier
- 4. The Ascent to Paris: Montpellier Physicians in the Capital of Enlightenment
- 5. Vitalism and the Encyclopedist Movement
- 6. Time of Troubles: The University-Court Connection in the late Ancien Regime
- 7. Semiotics, Smallpox, Sex: From the Practical to the Philosophical in Vitalist Medicine
- 8. Barthez and the "Science of Man"
- 9. Vitalism in the Late Enlightenment
- Conclusion: The End of the Enlightenment and the Eclipse of Montpellier.